Weekends

I still can't get used to the fact that the weekend here is thursday/friday. I seem to spend my whole time describing things that are going to happen on monday (when I mean saturday) or wednesday (when I mean friday) I suppose I will get used to it. Well busy weekend over for us and back to work/school etc this morning. The day here starts alot earlier, School starts before 8, still the nice thing is that at least there is no getting up in the dark and it has been sunny every morning. We have Sky news so I can keep up to date with the terrible weather back at home. Infact Sky news is about the only decent tv station we have. We have several movie channels but all have arabic subtitles and they never seem to advertise what is coming up, there are no tv papers or tv guide on the remote so it is very hit & miss if you manage to catch something good, the other problem is that the channel that seems to show alot of good US or UK series is run from the Emirates which is an hour different to us, so they can put on a good drama but is doesn't usually start until 10 our time which when you are up at 6 is quite late to start watching something. So the weekend here went well, a late night on thursday but all the food went down well. We went into town on thursday to do some shopping, there is a Starbucks in town in one of the malls. Everytime we have been into town we seem to bump into work colleagues (who given the set-up here are also our neighbours etc) there, however we can stand outside and chat, but should we want to have a coffee, if I am with him indoors and they are guys on their own, we cannot have a coffee together, as we have to go in the "family section" and they have to go in the blokes section, they are not allowed to be in the company of a married woman - It will take a bit of getting used to. I thought I had come up with a cunning plan at the weekend, one of the guys wants to drive the couple of hours to Ikea - I could do with going as well - and him indoors would rather stick needles in his eyes than go to ikea by choice (not to mention having to drag the kids as well) I briefly thought excellent - I can get a lift down with the aforementioned guy, do my shopping & come back - job done...only one problem I am not allowed in a car with a bloke I am not married to - apparently if caught I could be stoned and he could be locked up - cunning plan over and to think I used to think it was a drama to go to Warrington!